Distance and route: >> 26 miles, 385 yards; Dodger Stadium to Pacific Ocean through L.A., West Hollywood, Beverly Hills and finishing at Ocean and California avenues in Santa Monica. It has an elevation decline of 430 feet and will navigate 36 streets.

Elite athletes: >> Reigning champion Erick Mose and second-place finisher Julius Keter, both from Kenya, return. Genet Getaneh of Ethiopia and Olena Burkovska of Ukraine are among the women’s favorites. They will be racing for a purse of $110,000, with the top male and female finishers taking $25,000. An additional $50,000 will be awarded to the first finisher, male or female. The women will have a 17:41 head start.

Course records: >> It is the fourth year for the current course configuration and the fifth year going from Dodger Stadium to the ocean. A loop was changed for the 2011 race when Ethiopia’s Markos Geneti ran an all-time L.A. Marathon record time of 2:06:35. Ethiopian Buzunesh Deba won the women’s race in a course record 2:26:34 that year.

The others: >> The event has 25,000 runners and is sold out. Times of athletes can be monitored by text or e-mail by bib number. Additional information can be found at www.lamarathon.com.

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